Photo Sharing for DNCB

These documents are also available for download:
Photo Sharing for DNCB.pdf – formatted version of document below (20 pages. PDF)
Viewing DNCB photos on Flickr.pdf – by Jack MacDonald (3 pages, PDF)
– see also web page Viewing DNCB photos on Flickr

DNCB Photographers

Moving from Picasa to Flickr

by Glen Bodie

v. 1.4, 27 October, 2016

***Some formatting has been lost in translation from original
Photo Sharing for DNCB.pdf (available for download)***

One Pager: Adding your pictures to Flickr and the DNCB Group revised 27 Oct. 2016

Detailed discussion for DNCB Photogs new to Flickr

Introducing some of the features of Flickr
Preparation for uploading to Flickr
Steps to follow to add your pictures

Appendix 1: Recommended tags to use for Location

Appendix 2: Recommended naming to use for Species

Appendix 3: Priority features and how they are supported within Flickr

Revisions

1.0          24 Aug 2016              First release
1.1           02 Sep 2016              Improved one-pager, adds to Appendix 1
1.2           08 Sep 2016              More changes to Appendix 1, added Event codes
1.3           16 Sep 2016               More changes to Appendix 1
1.4           27 Oct 2016               Update to the one-pager

One Pager: Adding your pictures to Flickr and the DNCB Group

This assumes that you already have created a Flickr account and know how to use Flickr. If you need additional details, they are in the 20 page version of this document on the DNCB Blog.

We created a Group called DNCB at http://flickr.com/groups/DNCB. The following will help all Photogs add photos in the same way and thus make it more likely that random Viewers will be able to find what they’re looking for. There are 2 group Admins so far (Jack MacDonald and Glen Bodie) if you need help.

Clean up and prepare all your pictures on your Desktop. If you have the tools, you can also update the JPG files with Title, Description and Tags.
Login to your personal Flickr account, open the Uploadr and drag ‘n’ drop all the photos from your desktop folder onto the Uploadr web page. Set this metadata in the Uploadr:
1. On all photos (if you haven’t already added these Tags on your Desktop):
  1. Add a tag for the DNCB Outing as YYYY-## as given in the Blog and the Blog Archive (see https://dncb.wordpress.com/dncb/outings/) and at the same time you can also…
  2. Add a tag for the Location(s) as described in Appendix 1.
  3. Add a “DNCB” tag. Doing all these tags at once saves you time.
  4. Add to Group: select DNCB, your pictures will get sent there automatically when the Uploadr finishes publishing them (Step 3 below).
  5. Optional: Create a new Album to hold all these pictures (recommended).
  1. On each photo (if you haven’t already added these fields on your Desktop):
    1. Edit the Title field to contain the Bird Species (see Appendix 2). It can be the full name of the bird with additional qualifiers, or as simple as “Gull”.
    2. Edit the Description field if there is more to say than just the Species (you may want to save the image # here because Flickr will lose that when it uploads the image file).
    3. Add any other Tags you want (e.g., your name, species, features?). Tags for DNCB, the Outing # and Location are required tags for the DNCB group. The Species goes in the Title. Follow the Appendices for Outing #, Location and Species.
    Note: all photos in the DNCB Group must be Public viewable (that’s the default setting).
    
    Note: all photos are tagged by default with you as the Owner and All Rights Reserved.
    
    Note: contact an Admin if you do not want to use a personal Flickr account for your DNCB pictures.
    1. Complete the Upload / Publishing (button in the top right).
    2. Optional: If you made an Album, open it and set the cover picture, and sort the pictures by the date taken or by manually moving them around. Albums are helpful for organizing lot of pictures in your account.
    3. Optional: Use the Organizr and select your Album to put some or all of the photos on the Map.
    For your existing Flickr photos that are not tagged or in Albums or added to the DNCB group:
    1. Click on Albums, Create new Album, give it a Title, add the photos from the Findr area across the bottom and Save.
    2. Click on Batch Organize, select your Album or select “todays” pictures at the bottom, click all and drag the pictures up to the main part of the screen, add mandatory tags (DNCB, Outing #, Location) and Send to Group.
    3. Optional: Select Map and place those photos on the right place on the Map.
    Detailed discussion for DNCB Photogs new to FlickrIntroducing some of the features of Flickr
    1. - Join Flickr at http://flickr.com. We are recommending that all photogs create a Flickr account for themselves. It’s a good tool for all of your photo sharing needs, and having your own account makes it easier/better for you to post your pictures for viewing by the DNCB readership. Besides, the Flickr account is FREE for 1 Tb of storage! People do NOT have to have a Flickr account just to view your pictures … viewing will be made Public.
        
        Your Flickr account requires you to get a @yahoo.com email address which is your Flickr logon ID. You will also have a “screen name” which is how you are recognized within Flickr by anyone looking at your pictures.
        
        You can (and should) change the primary email notification so that messages from Flickr and Flickr users goes to a mailbox you normally look at. Login as you and at the top right corner there is an icon for your account. If you click on it you get a popup menu and a link across the bottom of it says Settings. A display comes up with 4 tabs. You might want to change several things, but for now go to “Emails & Notifications” and click the “edit” link to the right of “Your contact email(s)”. Add another email address, respond to the verification it sends to that email address and then make that email address your Primary one.
        
        Sooner or later, you ought to change the “Buddy icon” for your account. This is a small picture of something that you want to represent you in lists and things.
        
        On your main Flickr page in the top right area there is a search bar. Type in DNCB and click Search Groups. That will find the DNCB group that we have set up. Click the Join button and it will tell you that membership is by invitation only, and give you a place to send a message to the Group Admin to be added to the group. It may take a day or two before the Admins notice your request and act on it. If you can wait until you’ve been added before trying all the steps below it might make it easier to follow.
        
        Now for some explanations of some of the key features of Flickr that we’ll be using:
        
        Camera Roll – pictures get uploaded into this view of your pictures, and only you can see this view by default. The pictures are in “most recent picture first” order by default. You can view pictures from here, select pictures, edit the information about them and “tag” them (more on tagging later). By default, all pictures you upload are stored as “All rights reserved”.
        
        One of the views is called Magic View and it groups the pictures by what it THINKS they contain. It is very clever, often fatally wrong, sometimes just amusing. It automatically analyzes the pictures and puts “tags” on it that it thinks are appropriate. I am learning that the only tags that are right are the ones I add myself, and you should definitely be doing some tagging of your photos (more on tagging later). It matters.
    2. - Photostream – this is the subset of your Camera Roll that others can see depending on the security you applied to your pictures and who is the viewer. For our purposes, anything we want to post for the DNCB we will make Public.
    3. - Albums – within your account you can group pictures together into an Album, very similarly to what we used to do in Picasa. You pick the pictures that you want in the Camera Roll, and at the bottom of the screen there is an Add to Album link to add to an existing Album or create a New one. Once created, you can open the Album to view it, click on “Edit in Organizer” at the top of the Album to change the order of the pictures and make some changes to all of the pictures. From this view you can Batch edit and (as an example) send all the pictures to a Group.
    4. - Groups – we have a DNCB group. This is not an account like your personal Flickr account. It is a virtual place where all the photogs can put some or all of their pictures. This is where the DNCB blog will send people to see our pictures from a weekly outing. It’s going to be a bit of a change for all those viewers because Groups cannot contain Albums. That means that they will have to know a bit more about how to find the recent outing (or any other outing for that matter). We’ve added some help information for anyone who comes to the group. It becomes VERY important for the photogs to tag their photos well so that they can be found! But it’s even more useful to someone trying to learn about the birds because they can see all the pictures of a Swan (for example) or all the pictures from Serpentine Fen (for example). But it will take some practice.
    5. - Groups can also contain Discussions about anything you want. We already have a few discussions started to help people with Naming things and finding things.
    6. - Right now there are 2 different views of pictures called Groups: the original Flickr version and the new Beta version of the New Group Experience! You can toggle back and forth between them. They behave is slightly different ways but the newer one is better and will eventually replace the original. All descriptions following in this write-up are using the Beta version.

This is the Beta View of a Group:

– Admin Blast text is above the pictures
– Photo Pool Line just above pictures
– bottom right corner has a Beta Group switch you can turn off.

This is the Original View of a Group:
– Admin Blast text is beside the pictures
– Doesn’t say Photo Pool anywhere
– line across the top just above the Swallows gives you a link to go back to the Beta version

If you are not logged in with a Flickr account, I think you only can see the Beta version.

- Tagging –When you upload a picture, you get to define many things “about the picture” (called meta data). You can add Tags which are one word each and these are words that people might want to search for if they were looking for your picture. The kind of thing to include here is the Location and the Species of bird. The search engine is completely literal and it will only find full word matches – but if we are disciplined in the tags we apply to pictures, searches will be successful. We are proposing a list of standard location names and standard bird names for everyone to reduce the variation that could result in pictures not getting found.
- We don’t yet know for sure if we can transfer all of our saved pictures from Picasa and Google Photos into Flickr. The first problem is to get them all out of Picasa/Google WITH their captions and organization into Albums. The second problem is to take all that metadata and structure and somehow import it into Flickr. We’re working on finding ways. If we fail, we may have to rely on Google Photos and Picasa Web Archives for our “history”. We’re working on it.

Preparation for uploading to Flickr

1. - You have taken photos and uploaded them to your computer.
  - You have done all the image modification that you need on your computer. There are lots of programs for this so, if you’re not sure what tool to use, just ask some other photog for some suggestions.
  - You have identified the bird species in each photo. Read the info on tagging for why this matters. You could:
    a) edit the Title field in the EXIF metadata, accessible by many tools including the Details tab of the File Properties in Windows Explorer (shown here), or
    b) update the filename of each photo to contain the name of the bird, possibly something like:
    “YYYY Location Photo# – Bird.jpg”,
    and Flickr will use the filename as the Title, or
    c) wait and put the Species name on the picture Title when you are uploading it to Flickr.
  - You have identified the specific list of pictures you want to present for DNCB.

- You’re ready to get them onto the DNCB site ….

Steps to follow to add your pictures

Using your web browser, go to http://flickr.com and logon to your personal Flickr account. If you are just a casual uploader and don’t want to get a Flickr account OR if you already have a Flickr account but you don’t want all your messy DNCB photos to be seen there, then you can also login using the DNCB account at dncbirding@yahoo.com with the same password as we used with the Picasa site. If you do that, your pictures will not be associated with your name unless you also add a tag giving your name or Flickr screen name so people can use that to search for you if they like your pictures.
Near the upper right corner of the screen, click on the little icon that looks like to upload new pictures. The upload page will open.
Open your file explorer to the folder where you have all your pictures to be uploaded. Select all of the ones you want to upload, and drag and drop them onto the Flickr upload page. There is SO MUCH space available to you in Flickr that you maybe just want to upload every frame you ever shot. Once the ones you want have all been uploaded, they appear as small images with the filename below and a place to enter the Description. Suggested actions:
1. Highlight all the photos (they have a red border when highlighted) and add a tag for the DNCB Outing. See the numbering used in the Blog – the recent trip to Salt Spring was 2016-32, so they are all YYYY-## format. A complete historical list of these Outing numbers is provided on the Blog site at:
  https://dncb.wordpress.com/dncb/outings/
2. Highlight all the photos and add a tag for the location. See Appendix 1 following and also included in the DNCB Group Discussion.
3. By default, all of your photos are tagged as “Public viewable and searchable”, Safe for minors to see, and All Rights Reserved to you. You can change any of these settings if you want by highlighting the pictures you want to change and clicking on Owner Settings in the left side menu. Any pictures that you are sending to the DNCB Group have to be Public view because people who are not Flickr members need to be able to see them.
4. Identify the Species. There are a number of ways this COULD be done, but we really all need to agree on the one way we will all use so that searches across all of our photos will be successful. Our proposal is that you use the top line underneath the small picture which is the Title field from your EXIF data, or your file name. The search algorithm will do a full word, full text search (not case sensitive) of that Title field but it does NOT handle wild cards or partial words. That means Heron is different than Herons, and of course Great Blue Heron is not the same as GBH.We recommend that you use the FULL name of each bird, so far as you know it, include the hyphens and avoid all short forms and plurals. For any given species in your photo you do NOT have to use all of the detailed names in the Title – you might just want to Title your picture as a “Gull”. See Appendix 2 following for a pretty complete list of bird species at the end.
1. If you need to describe more than the species, perhaps the environment or the behaviour or amusing commentary, you can put that on the line below called “Description”.
2. If you want to add some of all of the photos to an existing of new Album, you can do that from this same display before the upload is completed.
  1. Having completed all that tagging and labelling, you’re ready to add the photos to your Camera Roll. Click on the flashing “Upload ## Photos” in the top right corner. Flickr will “publish” those photos to your Camera Roll, and present your Photostream showing you all the pictures with the most recent ones first.
  2. At this point every photo you uploaded is in your Flickr account, but not in the DNCB Group. You can organize your photos into Albums, if you want to, by going to the Camera Roll, selecting the pictures you want to include (you can click on first and shift-click on last) and clicking on Add to Album in the menu across the bottom. You can add them to an existing Album of yours, or you can Create a new Album. A new Album just needs a title and optional description and you can call it anything you want without affecting how your photos are used in the DNCB.
  3. When looking at the Camera Roll or Photostream or a specific Album there is a dropdown menu on the right side of the Title line that says More. Under there is Organize – and you can use that to reorder the photos, make bulk edits, add the pictures to the Map, or add to a Group. Now we want to add these photos into the DNCB Group.
    1. At the bottom of that Organizr view is an area that Flickr calls the Findr. You can select an Album name, or enter the DNCB outing Number that you tagged all the photos with into the Search box, and Findr will show you all those pictures.
    2. Click “Select all” just above those little pictures to highlight / select all of the photos. Then click on one and drag them all up into the main Organizr space.
    3. The menu across the top of the Organizr space has a selection to “Send to group”. Everyone will be limited to only add 20 pictures per day. That is meant to encourage you to be selective and only upload the really good and useful photos. But if you have more than that which you really want to upload, you can do 20 more of them the next day and the next. If you try to upload more than 20 in one day it pops up a little message telling you to try again because it doesn’t know which 20 (of your many many excellent selected photos) it should put into the Group.For our initial test period, we have taken that limit away so you can put more of your pictures into the DNCB Group to get it started. Click on Send to Group, select the DNCB Group, and it will add your photos to the DNCB “photo pool”.
    If you want to geo-tag your photos and locate them on the Map, here is one way to do it. I don’t know if Flickr can process the geolocation if it is provided in the EXIF data if your camera has a GPS built-in. Regardless, here is one way. However you get into the Organizr, and however you find a group of photos in the Findr, then call up the Map from the Organizr menu across the top. Position the map to the place you want (pan and zoom), select the desired photos from the Findr area and drag and drop that selection on the map. You’ll have a little “dot” associated with the selection and you can drop that dot anywhere to place those photos at that spot.
    1. Let’s go see what it looks like in the Group (Beta version). Under your regular account display there are a couple of ways to get to the display of the Groups which you belong to. As time goes on, you are likely to want to belong to a large number of other groups just because they’re interesting. Some you might think about as a Birder are:
      - Birds Photos
      - Birds birds birds birds!
      - Field Guide: Birds of British Columbia, Canada
      - Owls
      - Wild Birds of North America
      - Raptors of North America
      - BirdWatching Magazine
      - The Birds of British Columbia
      - Shorebirds of British Columbia
      - British Columbia Birds
But for now let’s just go to the Group called DNCB. The default display is the Photo Pool. On the line just above the pictures, at the right side edge, there is a magnifying glass. This is the tool that everyone will use to find the particular pictures they want, and it will rely on the information you have provided about each picture for them to find it. People might also look at the Map to see where we have been.

We have put specific information in Appendix 1 (Locations) and Appendix 2 (Species) so that you can all identify things in a consistent way, so that everyone else can find them. When you click the search magnifying glass, the search panel above starts with DNCB and Photos in it and space for you to type. What can you type?
1. - The DNCB Blog Outing Number YYYY-## which you would know if you read the Blog.
  - The Location, the one word meaning the place where we went, according to the tags given in Appendix 1.
  - The Species, one or more of the words that are listed in Appendix 2 to describe all the birds we find around Vancouver.
  - Any other word(s) you want, but it may be that no one has tagged their photos with those words … it’s a crap shoot!
  - Search is for whole words only e.g. a search for “yellowlegs” could show several photos, but a search for “yellow” could show nothing. Likewise, a search for “yellow-” would not show photos of yellow-rumped warblers.
  - There is no “clear” button to remove the filter – instead you just delete the search terms from the search box.
  - Clicking the X in the search box will cause the search to revert to all Flickr photos, instead of being restricted to the DNCB group. The search results are subsequently divided between people you follow and everyone else. It probably shows you a LOT more pictures than you were actually looking for.

One thing that I don’t like too much is that, for a non-experienced Flickr user (without a Flickr ID), once you get to a subset of the DNCB Group Photo Pool, it is VERY easy to go wandering off into some photographer’s work, other groups, then other photographers and other pictures that have nothing to do with what you came there to look at. I don’t think there’s any way (or any desire for Flickr to try) to keep people within a certain context once they get there. We’ll have to try to educate our viewers.

For any set of pictures that were shown to you, in the whole Group Pool or in some search subset, you can click on any Photo to see a larger image and find out more about it. Below the image you can see the name of the photographer, the Title and Description that you set when you were uploading, the Date, information about which Camera settings were used, details about the privacy and searchability. From there you can scroll through the other pictures that were in your search results. On any picture you can click on it to expand it / make it larger so you see more, and click again to go back to normal size.You, or anyone who has a Flickr ID, can add a comment. Unfortunately, we cannot make it possible for non-Flickr users to add comments. But even if you don’t have a Flickr ID, you can click on links in the details to take you to the Photographer’s site, or just the Album that contains this photo. It should make it very easy for the general DNCB Blog viewer to find out what we’ve done lately, and find more pictures from any particular photographer.There’s really so much more in what you can do in Flickr, especially how you can connect with others and share your photos. This write-up was focussed more on what you need to do for using Flickr for the DNCB and how you can make it easier for everyone else to find your photos. Please fool around and try things out within your own Flickr account, but be a little careful about what you might put into the DNCB group. We’d like to have a well enough structured use of this flexible tool that it will give value to all those people out there who don’t take pictures and don’t have any idea what tagging a photo means.Problems? If you have any issues or problems or want to do something more than adding and editing your Photos and your Albums, please contact the Administrators for the DNCB Group – Jack MacDonald or Glen Bodie.

Appendix 1: Recommended tags to use for Location

In order for the Flickr searching to be able to find your pictures based on the location where they were taken, we all have to use the same tags for the same locations. If I tag a picture with “Boundary” and you tag it with “BBRP” then no search will ever find both of our pictures … it is as though they were taken in different places.

This Appendix is also in a Discussion on the DNCB Group but only group members can see that.

The source for this list is all the sites I could find where we have already visited, and I picked one word tags to represent that. If we ever want to change any of these there may be a LOT of pictures to edit to make corrections, so let’s recommend any changes quickly, and then live with it!

Tag to use in Flickr	Full name of this Location
Alaksen	Alaksen National Wildlife Area, Delta, BC
Ambleside	Ambleside Park, West Vancouver, BC
Barnston	Barnston Island, Surrey, BC
Blackie	Blackie Spit, Surrey, BC
Blaine	Blaine Wharf, Drayton Harbor, Semiahmoo Resort, Washington, USA
Bloedel	Bloedel Conservatory, Vancouver, BC
BoundaryBay	Boundary Bay Regional Park, Delta, BC
BowenIsland	Bowen Island, BC
Brunswick	Brunswick Point, Delta, BC
BrydonHighKnoll	Brydon Lagoon and High Knoll Park, Surrey, BC
Burnaby	Burnaby Mountain and Burnaby Lake, Burnaby, BC
BurnsBog	Burns Bog, Delta, BC
Camosun	Camosun Bog, Vancouver, BC
Campbell	Campbell Valley Regional Park, Langley, BC
Cates	Cates Park, North Vancouver, BC
Cheam	Cheam Lake Wetlands Regional Park, Chilliwack, BC
Colony	Colony Farm Regional Park, Port Coquitlam, BC
Cypress	Yew Lake, Cypress Mountain Park, Bowen Lookout, West Vancouver, BC
Deas	Deas Island Regional Park, Delta, BC
DeerLake	Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, BC
Derby	Derby Reach Regional Park, Langley, BC
Dike	Boundary Bay Dike at various cross streets, Delta and Surrey, BC
DikeRichmond	The Dike around Lulu Island (Richmond), BC
Dollarton	Dollarton and Deep Cove, BC
Elgin	Elgin Heritage Park, Surrey, BC
Ferry	Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal Causeway, Delta, BC
GulfIslands	Salt Spring Island, Mayne, etc etc, BC
Harrison	Harrison Mills, BC
Iona	Iona Beach Regional Park, Richmond, BC
Jericho	Jericho Beach, Vancouver, BC
Ladner	Ladner Harbour Park and South Arm Marsh, Delta, BC
LighthousePark	Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver, BC
Lily	Lily Point, Point Roberts, Washington, USA
LittleCampbell	Little Campbell River, Hatchery and Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club, BC
Manning	E C Manning Provincial Park, BC
Maplewood	Maplewood Flats Conservation Area, North Vancouver, BC
Mill	Mill Lake, Abbotsford, BC
Minnekhada	Minnekhada Regional Park, Coquitlam, BC
MtBaker	Mt Baker, Washington, USA
MudBay	Mud Bay Park, Surrey, BC
North40	North 40 Dog Park, Delta, BC
Pier	White Rock Pier, White Rock, BC
Pitt	Pitt Polder Ecological Reserve and Pitt Lake and Grant Narrows, BC
PointRoberts	Lighthouse Marine Park, Point Roberts, Washington, USA
PortMoody	Port Moody, BC
QEPark	Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, BC
Reifel	George C Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Delta, BC
Serpentine	Serpentine Fen, Surrey, BC
SFU	Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Skagit	Skagit Valley, Washington, BC
StanleyPark	Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC
Steveston	Steveston, BC
Sunnyside	Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest, Surrey, BC
SurreyBend	Surrey Bend Regional Park, Surrey, BC
Tennant	Tennant Lake Park, Ferndale, Washington, USA
TerraNova	Terra Nova Rural Park, Richmond, BC
Tynehead	Tynehead Regional Park, Surrey, BC
UBC	UBC Botanical Gardens, Vancouver, BC
VanDusen	Van Dusen Gardens, Vancouver, BC
Whidbey	Whidbey Island, WA, USA
Whitehorn	Point Whitehorn Marine Reserve, Blaine, Washington, USA
Whytecliff	Whytecliff Park, West Vancouver, BC

Tags for Events

There are other DNCB Events for which we take pictures, and they should use the following tags on all those uploaded photos so that they can be found by people. All DNCB bird watching outings have a number – and a complete list of them is provided in the DNCB blog website under “Previous Outings”. These Event tags serve the same purpose.

Tag to use in Flickr	Full Meaning of the Tag
AnimalExpo	Animal Expo in Memorial Park, Ladner, BC
BBPA	“Boundary Bay Park Association” including “Cammidge House Committee”
BIFV	“Birds in Focus – Visual Presentation”
BIFW	“Birds in Focus – Photography Workshop”
BootSale	Car Boot Sale at Centennial Beach, can also use Event tag “BBPA”
BOTB	“Birds on the Bay”, can also use Location tag “BoundaryBay”
DayAtTheFarm	Day at the Farm on Westham Island, Delta, BC
FathersDay	Father’s Day Breakfast, Sunday in the Park at Centennial Beach, can also use Location tag “BoundaryBay”
GardenParty	Delta Naturalists’ Society annual Garden Party
LandFill	Open House at the Vancouver Landfill, Delta, BC
MothersDay	Mother’s Day Tea with the Birds at Cammidge House, can also use Event tag “BBPA” and/or Location tag “BoundaryBay”
NestBox	Delta Nats Nesting Box Maintenance, many Location tags possible
OwlNestBox	Specific for the Nest Box folks maintaining the Owl Nest Boxes
RaptorFestival	Richmond Raptor Festival in Terra Nova Park, so can also use Location tag “TerraNova”
StarryNight	Starry Night on Deas Island, so can also use Location tag “Deas”
Watershed	Fish Release at Watershed Park, North Delta, BC

More Location tags and Event tags can be added at any time. If you can’t find one that matches what you need, ask one of the DNCB Flickr Admins (Jack and Glen).

We’re hoping to figure out a way that the drop-down list for picking these tags can get pre-populated for you with all the “right” tags.

Appendix 2: Recommended naming to use for Species

In order for the Flickr searching to be able to find your pictures based on the specific species of bird, we all have to use the same names for the same birds. If I title a picture with “Heron” and you title it with “GBH” then no search will ever find both of our pictures … it is as though they were taken of different birds.

With birds it is a little different than Locations because you can always title a bird to different levels of detail. For example, it may be a Sparrow, and Golden-crowned, and a male, and a juvenile. That’s 4 words in the Title. You can imagine someone searching for all the Sparrows, or just all the Golden-crowned (and Sparrow too to make sure they don’t get a Golden-crowned Kinglet by mistake), or maybe all the male Sparrows, or maybe all the juvenile male anythings.

The source for this list is all the Nature Vancouver Seasonal Check List (August 2013) at http://naturevancouver.ca/sites/naturevancouver.ca/VNHS%20files/Birds%20of%20Greater%20Vancouver%20Checklist.pdf. For any given species in your photo you do NOT have to use all of the detailed names in the Title – you might just want to Title your picture as a “Gull”. This list is sorted alphabetically by the Main Name of the species.

This Appendix is also in a Discussion on the DNCB Group but only group members can see that.

You may disagree with the way some of the birds are named in this list – that’s why I used Nature Vancouver as my source! If we ever want to change any of these there may be a LOT of pictures to edit to make corrections, so let’s recommend any changes quickly, and then live with it!

As well as this list, you can also add other qualifier words to the Title field for the full-text search. But let’s all be consistent and use this same set:

- Male, Female, Pair
- Juvenile, Immature, Moulting, Eclipsed

Anything in Italics in this table is optional – common or useful, but not the official name of the Species. I added them so that someone searching for a Duck would find a Bufflehead, for example.

Name of Species	Main Name	Name of Species	Main Name
Siberian Accentor	Accentor	Barn Owl	Owl
Laysan Albatross	Albatross	Barred Owl	Owl
Cassin’s Auklet	Auklet	Boreal Owl	Owl
Rhinoceros Auklet	Auklet	Burrowing Owl	Owl
American Avocet	Avocet	Flammulated Owl	Owl
American Bittern	Bittern	Great Gray Owl	Owl
Least Bittern	Bittern	Great Horned Owl	Owl
Brewer’s Blackbird	Blackbird	Long-eared Owl	Owl
Red-winged Blackbird	Blackbird	Northern Saw-whet Owl	Owl
Rusty Blackbird	Blackbird	Short-eared Owl	Owl
Yellow-headed Blackbird	Blackbird	Snowy Owl	Owl
Mountain Bluebird	Bluebird	Spotted Owl	Owl
Western Bluebird	Bluebird	Black Oystercatcher	Oystercatcher
Red-flanked Bluetail	Bluetail	Gray Partridge	Partridge
Bobolink	Bobolink	Northern Parula	Parula
Brambling	Brambling	American White Pelican	Pelican
Brant Goose	Brant	Brown Pelican	Pelican
Bufflehead Duck	Bufflehead	Red Phalarope	Phalarope
Indigo Bunting	Bunting	Red-necked Phalarope	Phalarope
Lark Bunting	Bunting	Wilson’s Phalarope	Phalarope
Lazuli Bunting	Bunting	Ring-necked Pheasant	Pheasant
McKay’s Bunting	Bunting	Black Phoebe	Phoebe
Painted Bunting	Bunting	Eastern Phoebe	Phoebe
Snow Bunting	Bunting	Say’s Phoebe	Phoebe
Bushtit	Bushtit	Band-tailed Pigeon	Pigeon
Canvasback Duck	Canvasback	Rock Pigeon	Pigeon
Gray Catbird	Catbird	Northern Pintail	Pintail
Yellow-breasted Chat	Chat	American Pipit	Pipit
Black-capped Chickadee	Chickadee	Red-throated Pipit	Pipit
Boreal Chickadee	Chickadee	Black-bellied Plover	Plover
Chestnut-backed Chickadee	Chickadee	Mountain Plover	Plover
Mountain Chickadee	Chickadee	Semipalmated Plover	Plover
Eurasian Collared-Dove	Collared-Dove	Snowy Plover	Plover
American Coot	Coot	Common Poorwill	Poorwill
Brandt’s Cormorant	Cormorant	Rock Ptarmigan	Ptarmigan
Double-crested Cormorant	Cormorant	White-tailed Ptarmigan	Ptarmigan
Pelagic Cormorant	Cormorant	Tufted Puffin	Puffin
Brown-headed Cowbird	Cowbird	Northern Pygmy-Owl	Pygmy-Owl
Sandhill Crane	Crane	California Quail	Quail
Brown Creeper	Creeper	Virginia Rail	Rail
Red Crossbill	Crossbill	Yellow Rail	Rail
White-winged Crossbill	Crossbill	Common Raven	Raven
Northwestern Crow	Crow	Redhead	Redhead
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Cuckoo	Common Redpoll	Redpoll
Bristle-thighed Curlew	Curlew	Hoary Redpoll	Redpoll
Far Eastern Curlew	Curlew	Spotted Redshank	Redshank
Little Curlew	Curlew	American Redstart	Redstart
Long-billed Curlew	Curlew	Painted Redstart	Redstart
Dickcissel	Dickcissel	American Robin	Robin
American Dipper	Dipper	Ruff	Ruff
Mourning Dove	Dove	Sanderling	Sanderling
Oriental Turtle-Dove	Turtle-Dove	Baird’s Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher	Dowitcher	Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher	Dowitcher	Curlew Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Black Duck	Duck	Least Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Harlequin Duck	Duck	Pectoral Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Long-tailed Duck	Duck	Rock Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Ring-necked Duck	Duck	Semipalmated Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Ruddy Duck	Duck	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Tufted Duck	Duck	Solitary Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Wood Duck	Duck	Spoonbill Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Dunlin	Dunlin	Spotted Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Bald Eagle	Eagle	Stilt Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Golden Eagle	Eagle	Upland Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Cattle Egret	Egret	Western Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Great Egret	Egret	White-rumped Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Snowy Egret	Egret	Wood Sandpiper	Sandpiper
Common Eider	Eider	Lesser Sand-Plover	Sand-Plover
King Eider	Eider	Red-breasted Sapsucker	Sapsucker
Peregrine Falcon	Falcon	Red-naped Sapsucker	Sapsucker
Prairie Falcon	Falcon	Williamson’s Sapsucker	Sapsucker
Fieldfare	Fieldfare	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	Sapsucker
Cassin’s Finch	Finch	Greater Scaup	Scaup
Gray-crowned Rosy Finch	Finch	Lesser Scaup	Scaup
House Finch	Finch	Black Scoter	Scoter
Purple Finch	Finch	Surf Scoter	Scoter
Northern Flicker	Flicker	White-winged Scoter	Scoter
Alder Flycatcher	Flycatcher	Western Screech-Owl	Screech-Owl
Ash-throated Flycatcher	Flycatcher	Western Scrub-Jay	Scrub-Jay
Dusky Flycatcher	Flycatcher	Black-vented Shearwater	Shearwater
Hammond’s Flycatcher	Flycatcher	Short-tailed Shearwater	Shearwater
Least Flycatcher	Flycatcher	Sooty Shearwater	Shearwater
Olive-sided Flycatcher	Flycatcher	Northern Shoveler	Shoveler
Pacific-slope Flycatcher	Flycatcher	Loggerhead Shrike	Shrike
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher	Flycatcher	Northern Shrike	Shrike
Willow Flycatcher	Flycatcher	Pine Siskin	Siskin
Magnificent Frigatebird	Frigatebird	South Polar Skua	Skua
Northern Fulmar	Fulmar	Smew	Smew
Gadwall Duck	Gadwall	Wilson’s Snipe	Snipe
Common Gallinule	Gallinule	Townsend’s Solitaire	Solitaire
Garganey Duck	Garganey	Sora Rail	Sora
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	Gnatcatcher	American Tree Sparrow	Sparrow
Bar-tailed Godwit	Godwit	Baird’s Sparrow	Sparrow
Hudsonian Godwit	Godwit	Black-throated Sparrow	Sparrow
Marbled Godwit	Godwit	Brewer’s Sparrow	Sparrow
Barrow’s Goldeneye	Goldeneye	Chipping Sparrow	Sparrow
Common Goldeneye	Goldeneye	Clay-colored Sparrow	Sparrow
American Golden-Plover	Golden-Plover	Fox Sparrow	Sparrow
Pacific Golden-Plover	Golden-Plover	Golden-crowned Sparrow	Sparrow
American Goldfinch	Goldfinch	Grasshopper Sparrow	Sparrow
Lesser Goldfinch	Goldfinch	Harris’ Sparrow	Sparrow
Cackling Goose	Goose	House Sparrow	Sparrow
Canada Goose	Goose	Lark Sparrow	Sparrow
Emperor Goose	Goose	Lincoln’s Sparrow	Sparrow
Greater White-fronted Goose	Goose	Nelson’s Sparrow	Sparrow
Ross’ Goose	Goose	Sagebrush Sparrow	Sparrow
Snow Goose	Goose	Savannah Sparrow	Sparrow
Northern Goshawk	Goshawk	Song Sparrow	Sparrow
Common Grackle	Grackle	Swamp Sparrow	Sparrow
Clark’s Grebe	Grebe	Vesper Sparrow	Sparrow
Eared Grebe	Grebe	White-crowned Sparrow	Sparrow
Horned Grebe	Grebe	White-throated Sparrow	Sparrow
Pied-billed Grebe	Grebe	European Starling	Starling
Red-necked Grebe	Grebe	Black-necked Stilt	Stilt
Western Grebe	Grebe	Little Stint	Stint
Black-headed Grosbeak	Grosbeak	Red-necked Stint	Stint
Evening Grosbeak	Grosbeak	Temminck’s Stint	Stint
Pine Grosbeak	Grosbeak	Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel	Storm-Petrel
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	Grosbeak	Leach’s Storm-Petrel	Storm-Petrel
Ruffed Grouse	Grouse	Surfbird	Surfbird
Sooty Grouse	Grouse	Bank Swallow	Swallow
Pigeon Guillemot	Guillemot	Barn Swallow	Swallow
Black-headed Gull	Gull	Cave Swallow	Swallow
Bonaparte’s Gull	Gull	Cliff Swallow	Swallow
California Gull	Gull	Northern Rough-winged Swallow	Swallow
Franklin’s Gull	Gull	Tree Swallow	Swallow
Glaucous Gull	Gull	Violet-green Swallow	Swallow
Glaucous-winged Gull	Gull	Mute Swan	Swan
Heermann’s Gull	Gull	Trumpeter Swan	Swan
Herring Gull	Gull	Tundra Swan	Swan
Iceland Gull	Gull	Black Swift	Swift
Ivory Gull	Gull	Vaux’s Swift	Swift
Laughing Gull	Gull	White-throated Swift	Swift
Little Gull	Gull	Western Tanager	Tanager
Mew Gull	Gull	Wandering Tattler	Tattler
Ring-billed Gull	Gull	Baikal Teal	Teal
Sabine’s Gull	Gull	Blue-winged Teal	Teal
Slaty-backed Gull	Gull	Cinnamon Teal	Teal
Thayer’s Gull	Gull	Green-winged Teal	Teal
Western Gull	Gull	Arctic Tern	Tern
Gyrfalcon	Gyrfalcon	Black Tern	Tern
Northern Harrier	Harrier	Caspian Tern	Tern
Broad-winged Hawk	Hawk	Common Tern	Tern
Cooper’s Hawk	Hawk	Elegant Tern	Tern
Red-tailed Hawk	Hawk	Forster’s Tern	Tern
Rough-legged Hawk	Hawk	Brown Thrasher	Thrasher
Sharp-shinned Hawk	Hawk	Sage Thrasher	Thrasher
Swainson’s Hawk	Hawk	Dusky Thrush	Thrush
Northern Hawk-Owl	Hawk-Owl	Hermit Thrush	Thrush
Great Blue Heron	Heron	Swainson’s Thrush	Thrush
Green Heron	Heron	Varied Thrush	Thrush
Anna’s Hummingbird	Hummingbird	Green-tailed Towhee	Towhee
Black-chinned Hummingbird	Hummingbird	Spotted Towhee	Towhee
Calliope Hummingbird	Hummingbird	Black Turnstone	Turnstone
Costa’s Hummingbird	Hummingbird	Ruddy Turnstone	Turnstone
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	Hummingbird	Veery	Veery
Rufous Hummingbird	Hummingbird	Cassin’s Vireo	Vireo
Long-tailed Jaeger	Jaeger	Hutton’s Vireo	Vireo
Parasitic Jaeger	Jaeger	Philadelphia Vireo	Vireo
Pomarine Jaeger	Jaeger	Red-eyed Vireo	Vireo
Blue Jay	Jay	Warbling Vireo	Vireo
Gray Jay	Jay	Turkey Vulture	Vulture
Steller’s Jay	Jay	Eastern Yellow Wagtail	Wagtail
Dark-eyed Junco	Junco	White Wagtail	Wagtail
American Kestrel	Kestrel	Black-and-white Warbler	Warbler
Killdeer	Killdeer	Blackpoll Warbler	Warbler
Eastern Kingbird	Kingbird	Black-throated Blue Warbler	Warbler
Tropical Kingbird	Kingbird	Black-throated Gray Warbler	Warbler
Western Kingbird	Kingbird	Black-throated Green Warbler	Warbler
Belted Kingfisher	Kingfisher	Canada Warbler	Warbler
Golden-crowned Kinglet	Kinglet	Chestnut-sided Warbler	Warbler
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	Kinglet	Golden-winged Warbler	Warbler
White-tailed Kite	Kite	Hermit Warbler	Warbler
Black-legged Kittiwake	Kittiwake	Hooded Warbler	Warbler
Great Knot	Knot	MacGillivray’s Warbler	Warbler
Red Knot	Knot	Magnolia Warbler	Warbler
Horned Lark	Lark	Nashville Warbler	Warbler
Sky Lark	Lark	Orange-crowned Warbler	Warbler
Chestnut-collared Longspur	Longspur	Palm Warbler	Warbler
Lapland Longspur	Longspur	Prothonotary Warbler	Warbler
McCown’s Longspur	Longspur	Tennessee Warbler	Warbler
Smith’s Longspur	Longspur	Townsend’s Warbler	Warbler
Common Loon	Loon	Virginia’s Warbler	Warbler
Pacific Loon	Loon	Wilson’s Warbler	Warbler
Red-throated Loon	Loon	Yellow Warbler	Warbler
Yellow-billed Loon	Loon	Yellow-rumped Warbler	Warbler
Black-billed Magpie	Magpie	Northern Waterthrush	Waterthrush
Mallard Duck	Mallard	Bohemian Waxwing	Waxwing
Purple Martin	Martin	Cedar Waxwing	Waxwing
Western Meadowlark	Meadowlark	Northern Wheatear	Wheatear
Common Merganser	Merganser	Whimbrel	Whimbrel
Hooded Merganser	Merganser	American Wigeon	Wigeon
Red-breasted Merganser	Merganser	Eurasian Wigeon	Wigeon
Merlin	Merlin	Willet	Willet
Northern Mockingbird	Mockingbird	Acorn Woodpecker	Woodpecker
Common Murre	Murre	American Three-toed Woodpecker	Woodpecker
Ancient Murrelet	Murrelet	Black-backed Woodpecker	Woodpecker
Marbled Murrelet	Murrelet	Downy Woodpecker	Woodpecker
Crested Myna	Myna	Hairy Woodpecker	Woodpecker
Common Nighthawk	Nighthawk	Lewis’ Woodpecker	Woodpecker
Lesser Nighthawk	Nighthawk	Pileated Woodpecker	Woodpecker
Black-crowned Night-Heron	Night-Heron	Western Wood-Pewee	Wood-Pewee
Clark’s Nutcracker	Nutcracker	Bewick’s Wren	Wren
Pygmy Nuthatch	Nuthatch	House Wren	Wren
Red-breasted Nuthatch	Nuthatch	Marsh Wren	Wren
White-breasted Nuthatch	Nuthatch	Pacific Wren	Wren
Baltimore Oriole	Oriole	Rock Wren	Wren
Bullock’s Oriole	Oriole	Sedge Wren	Wren
Hooded Oriole	Oriole	Greater Yellowlegs	Yellowlegs
Osprey	Osprey	Lesser Yellowlegs	Yellowlegs
Ovenbird	Ovenbird	Common Yellowthroat	Yellowthroat

Appendix 3: Priority features and how they are supported within Flickr

Single URL that unknown users without IDs can use to get to all our Albums of pictures
Flickr: yes
Albums can be ordered (automatically?) with most recent first
Flickr: Albums are only on individual sites, not Groups and there are various ways to arrange them
Albums contain the following information: geo location, description, date, photog name
Flickr: yes
Pictures contain the following information: geo location, caption/name of the bird, date, photog name, at reasonably high resolution
Flickr: yes
Easy to upload photos to the site and into an Album from the photogs computer, preferably with some bulk processing tools to set information onto the pictures
Flickr: yes
Low or zero cost for the DNS
Flickr: yes, might be cost if we want to avoid some Ads on our photo collections
Room to hold enough pictures for the foreseeable future. In Picasa we had 314 folders with about 30 pictures in each folder and each picture was an average of 600 kb, so that’s almost 10,000 pictures or 6000 Mb and leaving room for the future we’d want 10 times that = 60 Gb
Flickr: 1 Tb. If each picture was 3 Gb that is over 300,000 pictures. Current Picasa site has about 10,000 pictures so that is 30 times more.
Easy to find a picture if you just remember the name of the bird or the approximate date, etc
Flickr: has extensive search capability BUT the search can only be effective if we have some discipline about how we name and tag the pictures
A solution that is very good for going forward and HOPEFULLY one to which we can easily add our old Picasa and Google Photos Albums.
Flickr: going forward is good. Still remains to be seen if we can extract what we have in Picasa and Google Photos and manage to upload that to Flickr. We’ll work on that, but not a sure thing.
Ability for photogs to maintain copyright of their pictures even when presenting them publicly.
Flickr: yes

Photo Sharing for DNCB

DNCB Photographers

Moving from Picasa to Flickr

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